Who's watching the Boston marathon?

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God I hate fishing and hunting shows, but OLN sure does hook up us endurance geeks once and a while.

Watching Boston Tomorrow? How about running in it? Coaching an athlete who’s running? Wondering when I’ll shut the fuck up?

I coached a woman for a few years and she is running it. I havent coached her for about 6 months but I still want her to do well. She started running and did her first thon after two years. She ran a 3:06 for a great opening thon time. If her coach has done a good job she should be around 2:46-50 tomorrow! GO Lauire!

Good luck to all!

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I’ll be standing in Coolidge corner at around mile 24. can’t wait. I’ve “run” a marathon (ahem), but never actually watched one. should be good. can’t wait to see what the fast guys look like.

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I’ll be waking up to it here in Kona…Also Hunny Bunny will DVR it so we can watch it during dinner and really pay attention to it.

You’re right, it *helps *to make up for the Bambi Bashing and Bass Masters shows, but not totally.

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Most likely on the West Coast I will be turning in for the Lance Armstrong press conference at 11:30 a.m. PCT. Seems like that is getting equal billing with the Boston.

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How is it that the Boston Marathon is held on a regular working day??? My understanding is that Monday is not a public holiday.

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We have cable in my classroom. I will be inflicting it on my students.

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I’ll be watching Boston as my gf is running it, but like Adrian in wondered why it was running on a Monday that (it seems) is not a national holiday.

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Why didn’t I have a teacher like you?!?

To answer the questions about it being run on a Monday:

On a Monday: The Patriots’ Day Race
From 1897-1968, the Boston Marathon was held on Patriots’ Day, April 19, a holiday commemorating the start of the Revolutionary War and recognized only in Massachusetts and Maine. The lone exception was when the 19th fell on Sunday. In those years, the race was held the following day (Monday the 20th). However, in 1969, the holiday was officially moved to the third Monday in April.

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I would be watching but my stupid cable company only gives OLN if you upgrade to digital. Every summer we get the digital box to watch le tour and la vuelta, but then last year they canceled la vuelta!! The nerve. Then we give the box back in the fall. With my decreased interest in cycling this year, I think that I probably won’t spend 3 hours watching the peloton race during the flat stages.

Patriots Day is a state holiday in MA. I think the schools are closed, and I’ve heard that most everybody who can comes out to watch the race. I hope I get to do it someday, sounds like a great atmosphere. I just need to get new legs…

-Colin

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How is it that the Boston Marathon is held on a regular working day??? My understanding is that Monday is not a public holiday.

Its a holiday in MA, just not the whole US.

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Crap! I just found out that OLN Canada is not carrying the coverage!!! I’m so bummed out! I guess I’ll be reading the coverage online instead. : (

Dawn

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Eurosport is showing it =)

It’s weird they didn’t show London yesterday, but they are showing Boston today…

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Good Old BBC get London I suppose - Eurosport probably didn’t have access to the pics?

I had my own personal view. After 3 hours it wasn’t pretty - Still, after 3:33:04 it was all over!

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Its been on for 25 minutes now and I’ve seen about 22 minutes of commercials.

What is going on? Wonder if they are having some technical issues with the live coverage.

They’ve show brief shots of two lead women, but no commentary.

And what happened to the hot chick that sprinted out to a 50 yard lead at the beginning?

On bright note, they mentioned that the Hoyt’s are in it.

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"Good Old BBC get London I suppose - Eurosport probably didn’t have access to the pics?

I had my own personal view. After 3 hours it wasn’t pretty - Still, after 3:33:04 it was all over"

Not true. I watched London yesterday on Eurosport and am watching Boston right now…but maybe Scandanavia is ‘special’.

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yeah…instead we got ‘the 10 best places to pig out in the US’ and ‘carribean workout’

what bullshit. instead of watching the marathon and the lance press coverage, we get to watch a bunch of fat americans stuff their faces full of food, then some dude in tight spandex do pilates…

i think a bowflex infomercial replaces the lance broadcast as well…